JJZolx wrote: > What I thought. I don't know who pays for this site to be maintained, but there is no moderation at all. It isn't possible to carry on a genuine, "adult" conversation here about the hobby we are all presumably so passionate about.
While there are plenty of "audio jewelry" or otherwise "lifestyle" audio gear manufacturers, the vast majority are run by rather brilliant guys who love reproduced sound at least as much as we do. I sincerely find it depressing that bashing hi-end gear is ok to whoever pays for this site. Sad. The reason, generally, that the very best sounding gear out there costs the most is that the engineers were not required to take short-cuts. If we stick with digital front ends, for example, the best of the best are designed from end to end with little compromise in the way of time and money invested into R&D or into parts. If a DAC was simply an off the shelf micro-chip with a few wires then dCS wouldn't exist. The circuitry is complicated. The power supply designs are pricey and complex. Same with the analog output section. Most recently, it seems that FPGA DACs are becoming mainstream within hi-end. If there wasn't any demand for better and ever better sound, then we'd all be stuck with junk from the 80s. Cary Audio 306 SACD Pro | Cary Audio SLP-05 | Cary Audio SA-200.2 | Focal Diablo Utopia III __Acoustic treatment: DIY Cylinder Bass traps | "Rule of Thirds" for speaker & sweet spot position __Speaker Cables: Analysis Plus Big Silver Oval | Shunyata Venom series power cords and power conditioning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jh901's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18175 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102330 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
